Ext3
Is the most popular filesystem (at least in this poll, so far)
It's good for sharing files with other operating systems
Rock solid because it's been tried and tested for longer than the other filesystems
Fast enough (even though some say that others perform better) given tweaking like dir_index and full journalling
Data loss is almost unheard of

ReiserFS
The second most popular filesystem (at least in this poll, so far)
It's a good filesystem for /usr/portage because it's good with small files
Fast and mostly reliable (some cases of data loss after a crash)
Some say that it slows down due to fragmentation

Reiser4
Not as popular as the other filesystems, because it hasn't been tested as much
Although some will use it as soon as it gains xattr support

XFS
Fast for large files, and as such it's good for holding media
But, data loss can accure if there's a crash (several lead Debian developers lost data)

JFS
Not used very often; even the Gentoo handbook says little about it
A good balance in speed between small and large files

UFS
*BSDs main filesystem

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I believe reiser4 was released, im using the latest version, works like a champ. I dont like ext2/3, i has blown up on me a few times. Reiserfs is very stable, never seen a system crash with it (that is I wasnt trying to make it die).

Reiser4 is fairly stable, I managed to lock up my system, hit the power button while it was writing(I had better things to do). Had to reboot into a live cd and run fsck. It said what files were broken, asked if I wanted to repair them(didnt work of course). My grip is that it renames broken files and places a pointer to them, which can be a major pain when replacing them. Next reboot worked great after fetching the broken files from the stage tarball and emerge.

I think my system locked up because I ran out of virual memory. oh well I keep all my media and work on a seperate drive, on a more stable fs _________________My Systems - "I suggest the whole thing be coded in whitespace. Henceforth the code will be obscure and functional at the same time."

I'm using the latest version, works like a champ. Reiser4 is fairly stable.

But, don't you find Reiser4 to be slower than other filesystems? I've read this benchmark and others, and they show that Reiser4 is the slowest in almost every test! Is this still true? If not then someone should re-benchmark using all the latest versions. Because if speed has improved then Reiser4 would be a really good filesystem!

I'm using the latest version, works like a champ. Reiser4 is fairly stable.

But, don't you find Reiser4 to be slower than other filesystems? I've read this benchmark and others, and they show that Reiser4 is the slowest in almost every test! Is this still true? If not then someone should re-benchmark using all the latest versions. Because if speed has improved then Reiser4 would be a really good filesystem!

I found it to be fast as heck with small files, which coincidentally almost 95% of linux is made up of. I havent ran any benchmarks on my end, but reiser4 appears to be faster compared to reiserfs. I havent ran ext on root for years so i can comment on that..._________________My Systems - "I suggest the whole thing be coded in whitespace. Henceforth the code will be obscure and functional at the same time."

I was wondering does anyone know more information about JFS?
It's like nobody uses it! The Gentoo manual says only:

Quote:

JFS is IBM's high-performance journaling filesystem. It has recently become production-ready and there hasn't been a sufficient track record to comment positively nor negatively on its general stability at this point.

And Wikipedia dosen't give any usefull information other than it was developed by IBM and is not offically supported.

I was wondering does anyone know more information about JFS?
It's like nobody uses it! The Gentoo manual says only:

Quote:

JFS is IBM's high-performance journaling filesystem. It has recently become production-ready and there hasn't been a sufficient track record to comment positively nor negatively on its general stability at this point.

And Wikipedia dosen't give any usefull information other than it was developed by IBM and is not offically supported.

I'd like to know a little more about how the file system works (like the ReiserFS page on wikipedia), and if anyone would recomend it over ReiserFS, Reiser4, XFS or EXT3.

I've been looking into JFS recently, too, and you're right; recent, solid information about it is very scarce.

I use ext3 and reiserfs my desktop is reiserfs and my laptop is ext3 both perform very well as far as I can tell._________________Ware wa mutekinari.
Wa ga kage waza ni kanau mono nashi.
Wa ga ichigeki wa mutekinari.

"First there was nothing, so the lord gave us light. There was still nothing, but at least you could see it."

I use ext2 for boot and reiserfs everwhere else. I would try XFS but I learned that you can not shrink an xfs partition and when using lvm (which I do everwhere) I need to shrink filesystems from time to time.

reiser4 caught my eye because of transparent filesystem compression (which I used all the time when all my systems were windows based). However it looks like reiser4 will never make it into the mainline kernel and until it does so I am not sure I trust my data with it._________________John

reiser4 caught my eye because of transparent filesystem compression (which I used all the time when all my systems were windows based). However it looks like reiser4 will never make it into the mainline kernel and until it does so I am not sure I trust my data with it.

It will likely be in 2.6.20 at least that's the aim, Andrew Morton himself is doing the code review, he plans to propose it for .19 to encourage some more reviews. Sadly all of the namesys people are either sick or on vacation currently so fixes might be delayed in getting into their codebase.

ext2 for /boot
ext3 for /
reiserfs for /home
ext3 for /livecd (which I'm seriously tempted to trash for a partition...)

I've heard good things of XFS, and what all you can get ext3 to sit up and do, but I'm not much for messing with a system I have no back-up for

Next time, though, I'm thinking of making /usr/portage ReiserFS for the speed increase, and messing with my hard disk performance. Here is hoping I don't screw up the hard drive..._________________The day Microsoft makes a product that doesn't suck, is the day they make a vacuum cleaner.

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I'm happy with JFS on all my boxen. Benchmarks say it doesn't use much CPU so it's good for my laptop, plus it's written by IBM, and tested for long time on AIX (though I know the code is not quite the same) and everything so I assume it is pretty reliable. I've been using it for a little more than two years on three different systems and so far it has survived all the power cuts, AC-removal-forgot-to-put-in-the-battery that have happened without losing a single file, so I am definitely happy (and I still do backups on a regular basis )._________________Momo_CCCP

I see that JFS is about to get integrated with the next SuSE. That'll be a big break for this underappreciated filesystem._________________"I cannot support a movement that exploded spending and borrowing and blames its successor for the debt."
-Andrew Sullivan

Since I use Win2000 and Gentoo I prefer the Windows Partition d: for storing all kind of personal Datas (Thunderbird, OO-Docs, ...)_________________There are only 10 types of people in the world. Those who unterstand binary and those who don't.